Texas Sharon has an excellent blog, Bluedaze. She has been intimately involved in the gas drilling problem in Texas since at least the early 2000s. She helped me get started on my journey as an anti-fracking activist. In this post she relates the stories of the Parr family and the Ruggierios who were neighbors surrounded by gas wells and the illnesses they all experienced.
Read much more here.
Flowback: How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety (2011)
Daily Kos coverage of this topic
In 1930, my greatgrandparents purchased a beautiful farm in Bradford County, PA, in a little hamlet called French Azilum. In the summer, we spent time there, resting, breathing in the fresh air, enjoying the wild flowers, the bright stars and planets on a clear moonlit night, and swimming in the Susquehanna River. If gas drilling is allowed to continue, Bradford County and all of Pennsylvania will be forever changed, ruined beyond repair.
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